Workers Party and Independent Socialist League Records 1945-1958

Labor action.

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Labor vets bulletin.

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Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

American Veterans Committee

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The American Veterans Committee (AVC) was an organization of American veterans that formed during World War II and disbanded in 2003. While many other veterans' groups represented veterans' interests during this period, AVC distinguished itself as an alternative veterans' organization with the motto "Citizens first, veterans second." Based in Washington, DC, with chapters across the country, the group advocated for peace and social justice for all Americans while also championing the needs of re...

McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984

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Born in Malden, West Virginia, in 1886 , McKinney, also known under the pseudonym David Coolidge, was the son of coal miner. At different points in his life McKinney endeavored a variety of jobs which included becoming editor of, This Month; a columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier (1932); Executive Secretary of the Unemployed Citizens' League of Allegheny County (1933); a Social Worker; and Assistant to the Director, Kingsley House. In 1916 an oral history conducted at Columbia University resulte...

Haskell, Gordon, 1946-

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Workers Party (1940-1949)

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The Workers Party (1940-1949), a Trotskyist organization founded and led by Max Shachtman, split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1940, holding the Soviet Union to be a novel exploitative social formation, bureaucratic collectivism. Opposing the "two camps" of imperialism, the WP led struggles against the World War II no-strike pledge, and published Labor Action, a rank-and-file newspaper, and The New International, a political/theoretical journal, both continuing until 1958, when the success...

New international.

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Independent Socialist League

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The Workers Party formed in 1940 in opposition to the Soviet invasion of Finland. In 1949, it renamed itself the Independent Socialist League (ISL) and in 1957 joined the Socialist Party of America. From the description of Independent socialist press publications for the Worker's Party and the Independent Socialist League, 1940-1958. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 191029158 The Workers Party (1940-1949), a Trotskyist organization founded and l...

Gould, Nathan

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Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972

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Max Shachtman, founding member of Trotskyite Communist League of America and the Militant; active in communist opposition, 1930-1940. From the description of Max Shachtman correspondence with Leon Trotsky, 1930-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84159686 From the description of Max Shachtman correspondence with Leon Trotsky, 1930-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702152214 Max Shachtman was an author, editor and communist leader. Shachtman, a Polish immigrant, ...